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Product Versions

MariaDB starting with 10.2

MariaDB 10.1.28 - 10.1.29

Character Sets and Collations

Simply put, a character set defines how and which characters are stored to
support a particular language or languages. A collation, on the other hand,
defines the order used when comparing strings (i.e. the position of any given
character within the alphabet of that language)